The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-02-17
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic News

1v ILN1S Or HE w 1Il.fNs
Domestic News
The long shoremen's strike at New York
was reported practically at an end on the
1t is rumored that Ex-senator Thurman
or his son will be appointed on the Inter-
State Commerce commission.
Henry Clay Dean, a Democratic orator and
chaplain Of the United States senate, died
at his home in Putnam county, Mo-, Sunday
aged sixty-fve.
The revision of the loss at White River
Junction, Vermont, disaster up to the 10th
made the following exhibit: Total on train,
o.; accounted for, 81; still missing, q;
identified dead, "a.
An aggregate reward Of $1,000 is now
offered for the capture OF the men that muir
dered Detective Hulligan, at Ravenna,
Ohio, the state legislature having voted
5000 of that sum.
1t is learned that Mrs. Horace Fairbanks,
wife of ex-Gov. Fairbanks of st. Johnsbury,
Vt, is among the lost. She was to have
been on the train and it is stated that her
cloak and watch have been found.
There were 237 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet's during the
week. against 242 in the preceding week and
.2s227, $40. 357 and 2j6 in the corresponding
weeks Of 1886, 50, "a and 'S3, respectively.
In the Illinois senate the Governor pre-
sented joint resolution to the senate from
the Ohio legislature inviting Illinois to par
ticipate with Ohio in the centennial cele-
bration Of the settlement of Northwest Ter
ritory.
"A wind and rain storm at Wheeling, w.
Va, on the nth unroofed church, among
other damage done; a hotel at Moundsville
was also unroofed and at Ben Wood q school
building was served the same way and
many roofs and chimnies injured.
From Lansing and Owosso, Mich, and
damage by floods and ice gorges. Large
numbers of residences and other buildings
were filed with water up to the second
away, and bridges wrecked. The losses run
high up into the thousands.
The following was reported from the
White River disaster on the 9th: total
number of persons on the train eighty -four,
including employees. Thirty-f four are
known to be dead, twelve are known to
have gone home, which, with thirty-six
bodies have been identified The report
| that Mrs. Horace Fairbanks, wife OF ex-Gov.
Fairbanks, was one of the victims OF
the disaster is erroneous. She was
| not on board the illfated train.
In some portions Of the east ice gorges
and water floods are doing some damage,
but nothing very serious, though in some
| places cellars and Easements have been
flooded At New York on the 10th, the
| British steamer Wells City, from Bristol,
| was struck and sunk by an immense ice
| flow in the Hudson river. The officers aud
crew were rescued. The vessel was valued
| at $4,000 and her cargo, principally tin
| roofing and petroleum, ut Sl4O 600. Both
were fully insured.
r. G. Dun T. Co. in their weekly review
of trade say: The stock market has
been negatively strong, and grain and oi
markets positively weak. Large sales OF
stocks have caused no great decline
Traders who bought when Europe was in 9
panic do not seem anxious to hold. Wheat
rumors, collapscs when their untruth j.
| perceived. The fall in price has been about
2sl cents Corn and oats fell cent each
while cotton and coffee are unchanged.
Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin were
visited with severe rains Monday and
Tuesday, and at the towns of Iona
Freeport, Joliet, Galena, Illinois, James
vile, Racine, Beloit, and villages in tina
vicinity in Wisconsin, there was mucl
damage from swollen streams, bridges
swept away, cellars flooded and houses
surrounded and cut off, lumber yard
fioated out. The rush of waters in tn,
localities named was without q parable
record.
A bridge on the c. & p. r. r., six mile
from tho Union dept at Cleveland, Ohio
was so weakened by the great flood o
water in the creek it spanned, that it gav'
way at q. m, on the 1lth, as passenge
train was run slowly. but had it been at it
usual speed terrible calamity would hav'
followed. The baggage car went down tn
embankment, but the smoker caught OF
the abutMents and the passenger cars wel,
uninjursd. The baggagemaster wos tn
nal ard serious.
The Western National Bank Of New Yorl
City, was organized on the 9th, with til
capital of g 100000. The officers are DAME
Manning, president; Conrad N. Jordan
vice president: Ferdinand BlankinhOrn
, cashier Mr.. Blankinhorn is at present as
sistant cashier of the Third National Ban
of New York. Among the stockholders ar
Sidney Dillon, ex-MayOr Grace, John No
Cook, Congressman w. Z. Scott, OF Penn
X. Mclean, Of Cincinnati; Assistant Unite
States Treasurer Canda, Of New York.
, From to 4:9O Sunday morning eartt
quake tremors, in two distinct shocks, last
ing about half a minute, end violently rocl
ing houses, jarring windows and derangin
goods upon the shelves of stores, occurre
, at Champaign, yandolia, Carlyle, Hillsbort
and Centrals' lis. Evansvlie, ma, ,h, an
ened and ran out crying for help. AtChan
paign, Ills, two merchants FASTENED
/ their stores fearing their safes had Zee
blown open by human agency.
Louisville, in Stark county, Ohio, {
! which Canton is the capital city, was struc
l by q cyclone on the morning of the It'll
Fences and trees were moved down lii
reeds, houses unroofed, shutters and gate
: torn from their hinges, window glass broke
and chimneys blown down. The slate rot
Of the large Catholic church was badl
shattered, and the roof Of the CONVEX
school djoining was lifted of in aninstan
= Two minutes of the roar and crash and Il
- cyclone had gone on eastward in its ma
j. fight. In that brief interval peop
!, crOuched to the floors of their dwellings an
u the ground in terror, while many were see
: kneeling in prayer. The wind blew wit
great fury at Canton city, but no materi
Q damage occurred.
Crimes.
Geo. N. Voice has been arrested for Il
, murder of Mayor Bowman at East St Loui
q ILL.,, some months ago, an assassination tn,
4 has been shrouded in mystery. 1t is su
- posed that he was hired to do the dee
/, Since the murder he has bceh serving on Il
East st. Louis police force.